soulmate theory 101 - a study of kindred spirits and the like-minded

alright. so soulmates. what does the term "soulmates" mean to you exactly? for most people, when they hear the word "soulmates," they automatically think of romance. they think of someone they will fall in love with and spend the rest of eternity with.

perhaps they are right in some aspect, the eternity aspect. a "soulmate" means exactly that - a mate for your soul. but a "mate" is not necessarily a lover. "mate" is also a common term for friend, which leads me to believe that it is possible to have platonic soulmates as well as romantic ones.

if you have a soulmate, that person's soul is destined to meet up with you in every lifetime you have. which means, if you don't believe in reincarnation, you can't really believe in soulmates.

but does everyone have a soulmate? absolutely not. not everyone is spiritually mature enough to be deserving of a soulmate. some people just are not deep people, because their souls are still fresh and new to this world. your soul has to have a certain amount of karma in order to qualify for soulmate status, i think. i have no idea how to determine levels of karma, but your soul doesn't recieve a mate the second it's concieved. you have to earn it.

how do you earn a soulmate? on this, i am unsure. my idea is that over the span of several lifetimes, as a soul is developing, by chance, they slowly become soulmates with someone else. by this, i mean that say a person is just going about his or her business, and they make good friends with someone along the way. if those two people's souls just so happens to meet up in the next lifetime, they can tell, and they slowly start to develop a soulmate status.

but how does this happen? easy. souls often reincarnate into their own family for karmic reasons. so if these two people's families live near each other, which they probably do, since they met in the first place, they're very likely to meet again. it's quite simple, actually.

but can people have more than one soulmate? absolutely. here is what gets a lot of people on the topic of soulmates. not all soulmates are romantic. many of them are definitely only on a friendship level. but how do you know? have you ever just met someone and been overcome with an overwhelming feeling that you've known this person forever? have you ever just had a conversation with someone, and half of the time you could complete each other's sentences or not even need to finish them because you both knew exactly what you were saying? have you ever just looked at a person and known that they were going to be in your life forever?

those people are your soulmates. there are some people that may disappear from your life. and once you forget about them or think they're gone for good, you magically run into them unexpectedly and pick up where you left off, no questions asked. these people are your soulmates. these people are destined to meet you in every lifetime you have until you reach nirvana. these are the people you couldn't get rid of if you tried. i don't really know how else to explain it. you just know. it's a deeper kind of knowledge. it's a knowledge you can feel.

i might come back and revise this later, or i might not. i don't know how well it's written or if it makes any sense at all. it makes sense to me. i'll re-read it with a fresh head later on and we'll see. until then, farewell!